A TERRIFYING moment was captured on video showing a news reporter diving to the ground after a huge bomb exploded behind him in Kyiv.
CBS International correspondent Charlie D’Agata had wrapped up his reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine, when he noticed a flight of white light in the sky moments after he handed the segment back to the US station.
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Startled, D’Agata is heard asking his crew, “What the hell was that?… I don’t know, it was almost like lightning, there was this big flash.”
Moments later, an even bigger explosion rocked Kyiv as the reporter is seen diving to the ground, going off-camera.
D’Agata can be heard commenting: “That was close. Close enough to see the flash.”
According to The Washington Post, a huge explosion took place in a region to the west of Kyiv’s city center in the early hours of Thursday, which may have been what CBS News caught on camera.
Despite the shelling, Russian forces remained at a virtual standstill on the capital’s outskirts early Thursday.
Addressing his people on the eighth day of the conflict, an embattled Vladimir Putin has issued a ferocious defense of his invasion of Ukraine.
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The Russian tyrant bizarrely claimed the war has been a “success,” despite the nation’s army suffering heavy losses.
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Putin said that the Ukrainians had been “brainwashed” and insisted that his soldiers were the “real heroes.”
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Russia has now admitted for the first time it had suffered casualties during its invasion – saying 500 soldiers have been killed and around 1,600 have been wounded.
Ukraine puts the figures much higher at over 9,000, while their president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowed Putin would pay the price for every dead Ukrainian.
Hopes of a quick victory have evaporated as harrowing images have emerged of burnt-out Russian vehicles and sobbing soldiers after they surrendered.
In a fiery televised meeting with his security council, President Putin branded the Ukrainians “extreme gangsters” and accused the military of using civilians as “human shields” despite no evidence to support it.
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Playing down the scale of the invasion as a “special operation” designed to protect the eastern Donbas region, he insisted his plans were on time and on schedule, despite Russian losses.
Denying Ukrainian claims that Russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians, Putin instead blamed the 2,000 civilian casualties so far on “neo-Nazis” holding the people of Ukraine hostage.
In his latest address, Putin admitted that his forces had lost “some small towns” and acknowledged that some Russian forces, including a senior commander, had died in the fight.
But he claimed the officer had blown himself up in a heroic act of sacrifice, taking out several Ukrainian soldiers.
He gave no indication of when the war might be over.
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